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One of my main photographic goals for my trip to Charleston was to photograph the iconic Spanish moss. These trees were so heavily laden with moss I couldn’t help thinking of the cobweb-coated trees from The Hobbit, but thankfully there were no giant spiders lurking in the shadows.

(And for your fun trivia fact of the day, it turns out Spanish moss isn’t actually a moss, but belongs to the same family of plants as pineapples (bromeliads). Guess it goes to show appearances can be deceiving…)

On a recent flight, I amused myself taking pictures of the thick cloud cover that dominated the sky, hoping that the directional top lighting would make for some dramatic contrast and interesting cloud studies. And then the thick cloud cover parted just long enough for a small patch of sunlight to fall on a forking section of river below – serendipity at its finest!

Arlington House (now the Robert E Lee Memorial) in Arlington Cemetery has some undisputedly beautiful, although sombre, views. For the most part, you can enjoy these views without consideration of the aged glass you are looking through, but there is one panel in a rear window which, either due to age or some fundamental flaw in the glass, creates the most fantastical distortions of the surrounding woods.

For Memorial Day itself, here is a more summery picture than my last, this time from our recent sunset sailing cruise in Charleston, SC. Besides offering some nice photographic opportunities to expand my growing collection of sailing pictures, it was a very pleasant way to spend an evening.